, 1887-11-02


Revd. j. Greathead, Mr.. Drysdale and other
citizens of high repute, and cancelled the
Boards decisions until the members, IN their
indignation, sent in their resignation OF otflce,
only to find that this very courteous gentle
man had abolished the Board of Education
and made fools of them, he has pursued the
same policy up till now. If the members of
the Board of Education had acted like fear
less men and demanded an apology, such as
they were entitled to, Sir Henry might have
been schooled into decent behaviour; but they
swallowed the insult, holly but silently
indignant and as a sequence came very
soon afterwards the Hospital boulevers-
ment, in which one of the Oldest and
most honoured and most valuable of
the %colony's officials was treated like a
criminal. Really Sir Henry on these occa-
sions proved himself a fine, courteous gen.
tlemanl OF his treatment from time to
time of the members of the Court of Policy
we need not enter into detail They have rich
ly deserved the insults he has repeatedly
heaped upon them, seeing they were IN
spirit mean enough to tolerate them. He
has never concealed his utter contempt for
the Court, and his present suicidal action
in the Williams case would be unaccount-
able if the motive of it could not be traced
to the time when the Combined Court
plucked up courage enough to upset his
own particular arrangement of the new MedI-
cal service. Revenge is sweet. His dlscour-
tesy had become so notorious that on his recent
return to the colony there was an express
sion of hope in the public press that he would
endeavour during the brief remaining portion
of his career here, to treat those around him
with due respect. 1t would be SANDER to say
that he has done no service TO the colony
we shall always be ready to give him credit
for what he has done but his i'll temper,
and in~civility have done much to spoil his
usefulness and contract the extent of his
governmental schemes. Beyond the plea
of general courteousness to all around him,
the Governor had little else to say on his
w behalf. He had allowed Williams to
go and he said he had a right to let him
go. Taking up this position, the Governor
made the rest of the proceedings very simple.
Mr.. Bascom, who was a pattern of courtesy,
regretted that a split was inevitable. He
asked for a short adjournment of the Court.
When the Court re assembled the old gentle
man quietly said that the Governor having
failed to explain his rejection of the members
protest against DIR. Williams departure,
they would decline to discuss any further
business before the Court,-unless he would
withdraw the report. This latter suggestion,
LIZ 0ONCIllO1 OAooSA w toAAl CShhOA u4S
Court broke up sine die.
The elective members Immediately tele-
graphed the position of affairs to the Secre-
tary of State and the Planters Association
sent a similar message to the West Indian
Committee. We should deprecate handing
the political reins of the colony to this latter
body at any time but in the present case it
is only natural that the local Association
should ask for the Committees assistance on
the other side to have the interrupted
government of the colony restored. The
mistake however should not be made of sup
posing that the present stand has been made
by the Court upon a planters question. The
Neepaul case is not q planters question it
is one in which the poorest of the land are
more directly concerned than the richest, and
it is upon this case, equally with the notori-
GUS report, that the elective members have
based their course of action; Mr.. Jones
placed this beyond question in his speech.
It so happened that owing to Mr.. Mulligan's
prolonged illness the motion for the Neepaul
enquiry was not brought forward before the
motion in connection with the Report but
otherwise it would have been, and it is al
most certain that a precisely similar de-
movement would have been Witnessed. The
colony is satisfied at last with the conduct of
their representatives, and, they having taken
the first decisive step, the people are expect
ing them to keep resolute until DR.. Williams
is ordered back to stand his trial, or-which